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The plot is never getting fully revealed

It's a shame too. It had every opportunity to be the next big game for its respective genre. Potential to be essentially the Fortnite equivalent of Platform Fighters.

22 million players on Day 1 for beta. And a little over 500,000 for relaunch. But both opportunities were squandered.

They had such a solid fun foundation. But the greed got the better of them. Such is the story and fate of most f2p model styles games

Allegations or proof. Ultimately history repeats itself, MK1 and Suicide Squad haven gone through a similar path.

Fighter Road

Hello guys it's Brad,

After covering this game and modern corporate game dev in general for 2 years, while I really empathize with the outrage and hurt going on in here right now, I'm seeing a lot of wrongful finger-pointing and people jumping to flat wrong conclusions.

1 PFG Cannot Just Release Finished Characters Whenever They Wanted

While I understand how frustrating it is to see finished characters leak and buried in code, you need to understand how these characters are made and allowed to be released. Despite being a conglomerate, many of WB's characters are tied in layers upon layers of legal webbing and PFG cannot just wave a wand and say "We want wicked or Ben 10 or gaGandalfndalf" . So they have to pitch these characters, how they'll appear in the game, if they can tie into movie releases as well, if including them in MV will be good for the brand, etc. It's an absurd process but game-making games takes time so as deals progress,

PFG does have to work on characters, their kits, etc to have them ready to go WHEN deals go through, but as we saw with Gandalf and many other leaked beta characters, these deals can fall through at ANY point. This is a very common thing for cross-over games like this, see M.R. having Ultron ready to go but having to do the Fantastic 4 this season bc they have a movie releasing soon.

To those of you asking PFG to simply release all the planned characters now cause you want them, I'm sorry that's not in their control and I imagine a lot of these release windows and compromises really messed with this game's making and success.

2. If anyone is to blame it is WB Execs and The Discovery Acquisition

WB as a company is a mess and I think it takes one look at WB Gaming to see how far that mess can go. It's also important to acknowledge that during this game's dev, they got EVEN worse when being bought out and gutted by Discovery, something that would make the above legal webbing even thicker. This is a company that doesn't release finished movies for tax reasons, wants the bag of a successful live service without understanding how/why they work, and will tank every studio they can in their pursuit of that.

PFG was never set up for success or allowed to have a say in decisions that allowed them to flourish. Do you think they wanted to release the game in the state it was post-beta? Or include an absurd amount of microtransactions?

3. No Dev Wants To Make A Bad Game

It's in moments like these that I really dislike the state of the modern game industry and the dynamic we tend to have with the people who make these games possible. The level of vitriol and hate I've seen sent toward the people who made this game possible and fun in the first place has been disheartening, to say the least. If you are someone who is harassing or insulting anyone on the team of PFG, you are going at the wrong people.

No dev sets out to make a bad game. Yes they can stumble at achieving that goal, and make mistakes, and when they fail that often means things we enjoy fail. It's very easy to get frustrated and want to lash out but we need to acknowledge this industry sets them up for failure and the outrage is never focused on the people who make the decisions that lead to these failures.

Keep The Focus Straight.

Seems better for both of them to shut up and ignore the allegations. Both statements seem to only strengthened the allegations that were posted on Reddit.

https://x.com/Tony_Huynh/status/1886119648480915954?t=nD86q2gy5h7PgcB9My_tYQ&s=19

I feel like that Andy Dwyer meme, where everyone is in on something and I'm too afraid to ask. Everyone seems to be pinning the blame for the end of MV and the decision to stop online services after Season 5 on Tony and whether it's true or not I'd just like to know why.

Would someone be generous enough to explain how the community knows it was Tony's doing that the game was discontinued and will eventually be shut down.

Or maybe comment a link to a reliable post that's already discussed this with points not only gathered from deduction and assumption

1. The game was made for casual play unlike the beta, some characters were so easy to win with and to play that they were unbeatable at times like shaggy, season 1 and 2 black Adam, season 1 and 3 banana guard etc.
2. If the game was for casuals they needed to make the grinding casual friendly too or make every character free, or easier to access and just monetize off the skins.
3. The monetization was terrible, 20$ for a skin was a terrible idea especially when unlocking said character is very grindy. Lowering prices would have helped the game sell more cosmetics, or every character should've been again, easier to unlock, or free. The 3 day early character Access purchase was terrible too. People saw raven got added, but we're then disappointed to have to wait 3 days before playing her. After those 3 days they were even more disappointed to have to play either 150 matches just to unlock her or possibly over 4k matches to unlock all of the other characters before they can unlock raven.
4. Bugs and glitches that went on for way too long that wouldn't be fixed or addressed since the beta. Every update would take one step forward two steps back. Also lack of advertisment, many people still don't know this game exists they should've advertised it heavily.

Why season 4 failed? 2 months of a terrible state of the game with terrible hitboxes, balance, last minute adding of Shields, and a very terrible implementation of the fighter road. This made many players stop playing and even I don't want to play the current state of the game right now myself.

Maybe there is something in the contract that prevents multiversus from continuing without PFG?

I could be wrong but games like Injustice, Mortal Kombat X AND "suicide squad kill the justice league" still have their servers on.

It's very strange that the game is just going to close, there's no way a company like WB would want to "tarnish" their image even more like this(I know they might "want to" or don't care, I'm just saying that shutting down the servers so suddenly is bizarre).

And they bought PFG!? This is insane, maybe the plan is drop MVS2 or something idk

I rly liked multiverses as an idea and was wondering if when the game goes into offline only mode if I’ll only have the characters I currently have unlocked or if they are expecting me to drop all that money just so I can keep the game somewhat decent after it shuts down 😭, thanks in advance!!

I’m playing on PS5 and trying to get the platinum before the game shuts down. The last trophy I need is Party Animal for 500 matches in a party. I know I’ve done 100 matches from the previous trophy but I’m confident I’ve done over 400 and it hasn’t registered. Is there some sort of bug? What can I do to fix this before I contacted support and they did nothing, and I can’t imagine they will with the game shutting down in 3 months.

I'll play a little Marvel Rivals, and maybe get better at some FGC staples.

never really played multiversus, but where yall planning to go? like for the fighting game itch, gonna try smash bros, M.U.G.E.N, rivals of aether, or smth else entirely?

im just curious, thats all

(also yes ik u can still play it after it shuts down if play during season 5 or smth)

Just not a good idea I understand why but still not a good idea and aquaman was supposed to release season 1 too

1.Some form of improvement to gameplay that is better than the current state of the game and season 3. (The betas state before it shutdown was at least actually fun to play).

2. Most or all unreleased cosmetics should be in the battle pass, if they aren't and its mostly just filler that would just be sad.(cowboy Tom and Jerry) (dress Arya) etc